Lucky me! My phone rang
and it was Bonnie inviting me to sail. I just love when that happens!

She had a ride for us
both on a J-30 called "Bump..." for the Screwpile Regatta
in Solomons, Maryland. Unfortunately, there was no One Design
class for us and we had to race in PHRF so we started out knowing
we didn't have much chance to win, but hey, a regatta is a regatta
so why not!

http://www.screwpile.com/results09/class8.htm
will show you how badly we did, but, hey, we won our 'sub class'
against the only other J-30! The air was mostly very light but
not as bad as I've seen up there in past years, and luckily not
as hot. The best breeze was the last day, which also gave us our
best results of the week. In fact, our best race of the week was
the very last race! Oh... and, very important... I got another
Mt. Gay hat for my collection! Thanks Pam!

After the race week, we
went back to Annapolis and were invited to race on Insatiable,
another J-30 for the Wednesday night race and we had a J-30 class
for that and plenty of wind. I was glad we had a couple of big
guys on the boat to get that jib in! It would have been too much
sail for me with those little winches! The Wednesday night races
there finish right in the harbor in front of the Annapolis Yacht
Club and if you don't get your sails down and engine on, you will
be IN the bridge with all the spectators who gather up there to
watch!